Remember the Humans
28 January 2007
Friday's post on the 101 Dumbest Moments didn't discuss one incident we all heard of last year: Radio Shack firing 400 employees via an email…
Just Think First
26 January 2007
While catching up on some reading on a flight yesterday I came across an article in Business 2.0 on the 101 Dumbest Moments: The Year's Biggest Bo…
Damn the Profits, Full Speed Ahead!
25 January 2007
GM continues to be insanely focused on "being number one"... number one in sales that is. We've written before about how this is a meani…
Brazilian Bikinis and Toyotas
24 January 2007
Are Brazilians just naturally lean? Is it something in their genes? I started to ponder that after flying, for the fourth time in the past seven days…
Toyota Optimizes Military Supply Chains
21 January 2007
Today's issue of Federal Computer Week gives us another story about how the U.S. military is turning to lean manufacturing methods to improve oper…
Diluting Lean
21 January 2007
I just returned from Chicago where I attended the quarterly board meeting of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence. The meetings are always int…
Finding Time To Innovate
19 January 2007
Our occasional guest author Dan Markovitz has an article in the latest Industry Week titled Get Lean Get Innovative where he discusses a common proble…
Lean Boomtowns
19 January 2007
I came across a rather unique blog yesterday while mindlessly surfing the net during a flight layover. BoomtownUSA by Jack Schultz is about... you gue…